Monday, February 13, 2017

In honor of Valentine's Day I wanted to share a few of my favorite poems and/or verses from some of my favorite poets. Whatever your circumstances are today, I hope you love. I wish you love. I hope you enjoy the poems and as a bonus, an original from me. Meh, it's sappy and trite and sugary sweet, but I wrote it and I am a lover of love. Ever the hopeless romantic, even when I don't have a beloved.
So sit back and enjoy the words my lovelies.

Sonnet XVIIIShall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer's leaves hath all too short a date:Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimmed,And every fair from fair sometime declines,By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:But thy eternal summer shall not fade,Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

-William Shakespeare

SonnetXLIII

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach, when feeling out of sightFor the ends of being and ideal grace.I love thee to the level of every day’sMost quiet need, by sun and candle-light.I love thee freely, as men strive for right.I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.I love thee with the passion put to useIn my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.I love thee with a love I seemed to loseWith my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,I shall but love thee better after death.

-Elizabeth Barret Browning

Song of the Open Road

"I give you my love more precious than money,

I give you myself before preaching or law;

Will you give me yourself? will you come travel with me?

Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?"

-Walt Whitman

For YouIn all my dreamsI never imaginedwhat loving you could do to meHow deep I would fallor the immeasurable happiness my heart could feelAt times I wondered if you even existedWhile all alongyou were right thereYour heart your tendernessyour kind soulshowed me what I had been longing forHow sweet, my loveyou are to meThe world on a platteryou give to meI love you beyond measurefrom my heartto the moonto the stars deeper than the oceanshigher than the skiesMy eyes well up with tearsbut not of sadness only loveonly peaceonly happinessOnly you.-Yvonne J. Salvatierra

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